The Narrow Road to the Deep North
My Review
A riveting story during World War II, it follows an Australian soldier interned in a Japanese concentration camp and the hostilities he faced.
Strongly recommended for a tough story of survival and history. The fact that it won the 2014 Man Booker Prize should tell you it’s good!
The Swerve-How the World Became Modern
My Review
[!quote] Epicurus Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in a unwalled city
[!quote] Philodermus Men suffer the worst while for the sake of the most alien desires, they neglect the most necessary appetites. It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently and honorably and justly, and also without living courageously and temperately and magnanimously, and without making friends, and without being philanthropic.